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sharecropper

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The teenagers were children of sharecroppers and had been picking cotton all day. en.wikipedia.org

The agreement would also indicate whether the sharecropper would use his own equipment to raise the crops, or use the landlord's equipment. en.wikipedia.org

To support the family, he worked with his parents as a sharecropper. en.wikipedia.org

The church community consisted of poor miners, sharecroppers, and a few black families. en.wikipedia.org

All the land was registered in the name of the sharecroppers, the new farm owners. en.wikipedia.org

For example, a landowner may have a sharecropper farming an irrigated hayfield. en.wikipedia.org

It was settled in the 1920s by sharecroppers. en.wikipedia.org

However, the majority are mainly sharecroppers and agricultural labourers. en.wikipedia.org

Others were day laborers or very poor sharecroppers, who worked under the supervision of the landowner. en.wikipedia.org

Mostly for the cultivation of cotton, land would be used by sharecroppers in return for a share of the crop to the landowner. en.wikipedia.org

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